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Of the major games in the Mario Brothers franchise, Super Mario 64 gets perhaps the least love, and it's not hard to see why. While revolutionary at the time, 64-bit graphics were swiftly surpassed and quickly felt dated and blocky. Even Goldeneye, the Nintendo 64's standard bearer, can't quite hold up today.

Now, one intrepid designer has given a glimmer of hope for a game that was locked in 1996: Erik Roystan Ross has remade the first level using the Unity game engine. The graphics now have the more polished look of recent Mario games for the Wii and DS.

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Sadly for all of us, Ross has no plans to develop this further and turn the entire game into a more modern masterpiece. It's a real shame, because this is some great work, though the possibility of litigiousness by Nintendo might be a factor here. But maybe this will spur them to give Mario 64 the revival it deserves.